Questions
What the house does, and what it will not.
Including the limits. Especially the limits.
What exactly does Hearth & Dusk do?+
It gives you one private room to return to at the end of the day. You set a fire, weather, a lamp, a record and a tea; you can sit with a breathing flame or a steep timer; you can write one sentence. The house remembers how you left the room and records each evening in a ledger you can look back over.
Is this a meditation app?+
No. There is no course, no programme, no streak and no instruction. The hearth has four rhythms shown as seconds and nothing else. You are not being guided anywhere.
Does it track my sleep?+
No. There is no microphone, camera, wearable or sensor anywhere in the house. The fade room lowers the sound and darkens the screen over the length you choose, and records nothing about it. Hearth & Dusk cannot tell whether you slept, and makes no claim about it.
Does it measure my heart rate or breathing?+
No. The house reads nothing from your body. The flame simply rises and settles on the rhythm you picked; no breath is counted and nothing is derived from you.
Is the audio recorded or generated?+
Generated. Every texture is synthesised in your browser from filtered noise, and is labelled as generated wherever it is offered. The house holds no field recordings and never presents generated sound as a recording.
Do the frequencies do anything?+
There are no frequencies to speak of. The house makes no claim about 432 Hz, 528 Hz, Solfeggio tones, binaural beats or entrainment. What you hear is atmosphere you chose to have in the room, and that is the whole of the claim.
What is the Evening Ledger?+
A record of every evening you have been in the house, plotted across the year by month and by season: what was lit, what was poured, what was played, what was written. Nothing in it is scored. If you have logged nothing, it says so plainly.
What happens to the line I write?+
It stays in your journal, visible only to you, and it becomes part of your ledger. If a line exists from this date a year ago, The Reader reads it back to you. Lines are never used to train anything, never shown to other members, and never sold.
Can I delete everything?+
Yes, in one action, from the privacy page while signed in. It removes your rooms, evenings, lines, teas, season notes, household seats and membership record. There is no waiting period and no copy kept.
How is membership billed?+
Annually only. The Threshold is free and never expires; The Evening is $190 a year, The House $490 and The Hearth $990. There is no monthly plan and no lifetime tier. A price rise applies to new members only.
Is there advertising or tracking?+
No advertising, no third-party trackers, no analytics pixels, no advertising identifiers. The house rule is on every page: no advertising, no tracking, no scores, ever.
Does it work on a phone?+
Yes. Every room is built to be used one-handed, and the house is designed to be read at night, at low brightness, without hurry.